Architecting Enterprise Readiness: Why SAML Still Wins the B2B Auth War
Security Boulevard, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
It's 2025 and we are still arguing about xml tags while the rest of the world has moved on to json and sleek oidc flows. You'd think a tech stack from the early 2000s would be dead by now, but in the world of enterprise identity, saml is basically the cockroach that won't quit.
The Enterprise Paradox: Why we still use XML in 2025
It's 2025 and we are still arguing about xml tags while the rest of the world has moved on to json and sleek oidc flows. You'd think a tech stack from the early 2000s would be dead by now, but in the world of enterprise identity, saml is basically the cockroach that won't quit.
Honestly, it's a weird paradox. We love to complain about how "heavy" or "verbose" saml feels compared to modern stuff, yet it remains the undisputed king of the b2b world. Why? Because when a ceo at a massive bank or a healthcare giant signs a contract, they don't care about your "modern" api-first approach-they care about their existing okta or microsoft entra id (formerly azure ad) setups.